Author: Neil Schoenherr

Photo by Mary ButkusThe Stress-Free Zone is held each semester during reading week and features massages, healthy snacks, games, movies and art projects.

Photo by David KilperMembers of Student Health Services moved Jan. 19 into their spacious new home in Forsyth House in the South 40.

Photo by Kevin LowderThe University’s Black Anthology group performs at the 19th annual celebration honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Jan. 16 in Graham Chapel.

Keith Sawyer, Ph.D., associate professor of education and psychology in Arts & Sciences, is one of the country’s leading scientific experts on creativity. His research spans creativity, collaboration, learning and play. His eighth book, Explaining Creativity, was the subject of a recent Time magazine interview.

“One Woman’s Action…One Man’s Effort” is the theme of the University’s annual celebration honoring Martin Luther King Jr. at 7 p.m. Jan. 16 in Graham Chapel. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton will begin the program with a welcome and remarks. Also speaking will be Margaret Bush Wilson, a prominent civil rights attorney in the 1960s and the first woman to chair the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and several student leaders. The evening will include performances by the YMCA Boys Choir and Washington University’s Black Anthology.

TrinkausTwo Neandertal fossils excavated from Vindija Cave in Croatia in 1998, believed to be the last surviving Neandertals, may be 3,000-4,000 years older than originally thought. An international team of researchers, including Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has redated the two Neandertals from Vindija Cave, the results of which have been published in the Jan. 2-6 early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

“A common cold is a virus. Antibiotics simply won’t work on viral infections,” says David C. Mellinger, chief physician at the Student Health Service.

Photo by Kevin LowderGraduate students interested in pursuing a joint degree were able to collect information on the University’s graduate programs at a Nov. 29 event.

Photo by Mary ButkusThe WUSTL community “adopted” 133 families in need this holiday season, donating numerous items through the Give Thanks Give Back campaign.

Photo by Kevin LowderSophomore Betsy Nichols participated in the recent Locks of Love event in Mallinckrodt Student Center.